Why did Carthage deserve it?

Why did Carthage deserve it?

Mess with Rome, lose you dome

Nice Roman ruins there by the way ahahahahah

they literally only started giving a fuck about waging the wars seriously and commiting their resources when it was already too late and Rome was about to destroy them for good. Most of the rich Carthaginian elite only wished to get richer and do nothing.

They routinely employed those ProtoPortugese Iberian-niggers to fight their battles for them.

It's shame Rome didn't just conquer it. Imagine a european dominance in North Africa. Basically means emigrating muslims would have a much harder time getting to eurrope.

They did conquer it, you utter brainlet. It was a Roman province for centuries.

Oh you poor thing

By that I meant not absolutely destoy it and its people. You mongs.

Have you heard of the two Persian empires the Sassanids and the Parthians?

Need some help spelling "destroy" m8?

Indeed I have, and the ERE outlived them by 800 years.

No you meant that Rome never ruled North Africa because you are an underage /pol/ddit tourist.
Fuck off.

They threw babies into fires

>Imagine a european dominance in North Africa.
>By that I meant not absolutely destoy it and its people.
No, no that line of logic doesn't follow through at all.

fuck you!!
the Iberians were based af.

they managed to keep the R*mans at bay for almost 400 years.

semitic punishits got btfo by based indo-EUROPEAN romans

they also invented the Gladius and Pugio you can see a few of them in the pic.

>iberians invented the short sword and the dagger
whoah

rome captured the partian capital 4-5 times while the partians/sasssanids never captured rome.

no dipshit they invented the Gladius and Pugio, very unique weapons.

those were generic celtic weapons of the time

the Gladius was a mix of the Greek Xyphos and the Celtic Cladios

Uhrrmmm sorry soiboy but that's totally irrelevant (like grease).
Arabs conquered Persia not gayr**ks larping as romans

no shit talker, they were only used in the Iberian peninsula.
Celts elsewhere used long swords.

did ancient celts actually have plaid/striped pants!!!??

CARTHAGO DELENDA EST

I think Carthage gets too much praise, Tyre is the city which founded and which spread the alphabet and urbanization through Southern Europe and also increased several times the intensity of trade going on in the Wester Mediterranean, Carthage was irrelevant until the 7-6th century bc when it got big enough to start being bossy

state enforced child sacrifice
cathago delanda est

It wasn’t state enforced

They tasked the Romans, they tested, they prodded, they dared challenge Rome's place. The notion that Rome would answer to another power on its door was intolerable. They could not remain for Rome to breath.

Carthage was hardly a state as we recognize it today. It was just an oligarchy run by rich merchants who had a laissez-faire approach to almost everything until they realized that Rome was going to fucking annihilate them and by then it was too late. Look at how they managed the Barcids, up and abandoning them multiple times. The religious stuff was totally independent

that was roman propaganda

just like annibal, he never even got to italy, fuckers told lies so their triumph against a fisher's village wasnt a complete joke

carthage is the darkness of humanity. calling us to butcher our countrymen for gold, or whatever you fancy.

They sacrificed children for their rituals.

no, fuck that
if carthage ever got to the 7 century they could have held the muslims in western north africa

yes! absolutely pic related.

/thread

They were worse than the romans.
History would be shitty if carthage somehow won against roman force and will.